Slip: Life in the Middle of Eating-Disorder Recovery

Winner of the Association of American Publishers' 2026 PROSE Award for Excellence in Biological and Life Sciences“A gorgeous, paradigm-smashing book” (Emi Nietfeld, author of Acceptance) written by journalist and professor at the University of Texas-Austin Mallary Tenore Tarpley, Slip offers a groundbreaking framework for understanding eating disorder recovery and interweaves poignant personal stories, immersive reporting, and cutting-edge science. “This tremendous book will comfort, inspire, and educate readers” (Christie Tate, New York Times bestselling author). When Mallary Tenore Tarpley lost her mother at eleven years old, she wanted to stop time.If growing up meant living without her mother, then she wanted to stay little forever.What started as small acts of food restriction soon turned into a full-blown eating disorder, and a year later, Tarpley was admitted to Boston’s Children’s Hospital.With honesty and grace, Slip chronicles Tarpley’s childhood struggles with anorexia to he